A design studio that specialises in beeswax has curated a London Design Festival exhibition revealing how living trees can provide materials for design objects.
Wax Atelier is behind The Abney Effect, a treasure trove of objects and material experiments made using bio-based waxes, resins, oils, fibres and dyes, all sourced from unfelled trees.
The Abney Effect showcases waxes, resins, oils, fibres and dyes made from trees
The exhibition is on show at Wax Atelier's new workshop space on the edge of Abney Park, a historic London cemetery that doubles as a woodland nature reserve.
Highlights include lamps made from pine resin, wood-derived wax crayons and a series of scented waxes created from different parts of orange trees.
The show includes objects, textiles, scents and material experiments Designer and Wax Atelier co-founder Lola Lely said the setting was the starting point for the show.
Located in Stoke Newington, Abney Park first opened in 1840 as an arboretum. It once contained 2,500 species of tree ? more than even Kew Gardens has today ? including a rosarium with over 1,000 varieties of rose.
"That was the inspiration," Lely told Dezeen during a tour of the show.
"Besides oxygen, paper and wood, loads of things are derived from trees. We wanted to create a retrospective of those things."
Wax Atelier is exhibiting aromatic wax made from different parts of an orange tree
The show includes experiments from Lely's own design studio and products that s...